demigod

When I meditate concentrating on my breath,my mind interferes with my breathing and it becomes uncomfortable if I dont relax

I believe this acts as some negative feedback for the control freak self inside me. Every time I exert unnecessary control it becomes uncomfortable.

Meditating long enough may show me that the mind will wander in its own ways regardless of what I maybe doing at the moment, and its best for me to let it wander on its own ways and focus on what I am doing. Thus helping me understand that all the thoughts about ego, and judgements is just come process on the sidelines, and different from the core of me, the core that is focused on what I am doing.

This is the impression I have of where meditation is taking me.

exactly!!! It helped me too, to put money in its place, I had a problem with spending money.

I remember reading on HN sometime ago about the Mumbai High Court verdict that allowed life saving drugs to be reverse engineered and this was what allowed the Indian companies to copy the drugs.

However lifesaving the drugs maybe, this would cause the multinationals developing the drugs to increase costs so they dont lose their R&D investment while the Indian companies make a quick buck on someone else's research.

The goverment should have subsidised the drugs which would have been a balance between capitalism and compassion.

Forget his language, he may not be a native English speaker and the difference in the way he acts, that based on our perception of how a Buddhist should be.

I may not be a Buddhist but as some one who love Buddhist philosophy, I find no reason to get offended at the picture, Actually I myself love seeing pictures of Buddha at more and more places (as long as its not used in profane ways) It actually cheers me up.

Yes, both sides are playing with semantics and what's more important is that, like a lot of questions of law breaking this boils down to question of rights and doing something which you clearly have no right to. Im not supporting the recording industry in any way but nobody has the rights to intrude upon someone else's, be it a recording company, and if you dont like the way they do things you have the right to refrain from doing business with them, not pirate their stuff.

No you didnt if you made up the bits, wrote them, and didnt copy off from a star wars DVD, and in real world once you have written the bits there is no way to know whether you copied it or wrote it by yourself so we compare it with the original and if there is an overbearing similarity then it is considered as piracy or stealing.

You cant be blind to this, Piracy is different from stealing, but it is analogous and so the meme. When you physically steal something from a store, the store faces a loss of value and that is why it is illegal. Information is not valued in the same way as other goods and sometimes the value is lost when a copy is made even though the original is not damaged in any way. Its like the secret treasure map which has the value of the treasure if its a secret and has zero value once its made public and the treasure is long gone.

Get your agenda right and the rest will fall into place, you wont have to work at being productive